Example Sentences

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Those runs often led to confusion in the Dutch defence with who should have been marking James when she skipped between the lines?

From BBC • Jul. 9, 2025

Those are Ford’s prices, though; dealers have been marking Lightnings way up to $150,000 and more.

From The Verge • Aug. 16, 2022

As for Kindle readers who have been marking passages in their e-books for years: You can see all your highlights at https://read.amazon.com/notebook and decide which lines you’d like to add to your commonplace book.

From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2021

Search and rescue teams in the southwest Alaska commercial hub of Bethel have been marking holes on the Kuskokwim, but there were so many, they ran out of the $300-a-roll reflective tape.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 18, 2018

I hear that Green and the Engineers have been marking out places for new batteries, for the last month; and I suppose fatigue work is going to be the order of the day.

From Held Fast For England A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)